I'm in the same boat. Mostly C# for 15 years, and now Rails. I've seen bugs in production that were non-trivial to track down that a static type checker would h

I'm in the same boat. Mostly C# for 15 years, and now Rails. I've seen bugs in production that were non-trivial to track down that a static type checker would have caught. Refactoring is tough, not just because of the lack of static typing, but because of implicit dependencies, crazy and inconsistent ways to handle and invoke method messages, etc. In short,I'm not a Ruby fan...