diff --git a/lib/linguist/languages.yml b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
index 02170a79..b92dd6a0 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/languages.yml
+++ b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
@@ -1273,8 +1273,8 @@ HCL:
   extensions:
     - .hcl
     - .tf
-  ace_mode: javascript
-  tm_scope: source.json
+  ace_mode: ruby
+  tm_scope: source.ruby
 
 HTML:
   type: markup