A lot of Rails/Ruby magic hides in the dynamic "generation" of code and in the nice DSL-s. However you can typically achieve the same using e.g. macros (which w

A lot of Rails/Ruby magic hides in the dynamic "generation" of code and in the nice DSL-s. However you can typically achieve the same using e.g. macros (which work on compile time) and which can be even statically typed. The DSL thing is orthogonal: it's more related to the language syntax than to the type system.