Ruby is one of the few successors to smalltalk with "true" everything is an object and message passing. As such, duck typing is in fact a feature and if you can

Ruby is one of the few successors to smalltalk with "true" everything is an object and message passing. As such, duck typing is in fact a feature and if you can internalize how it differs from traditional OOP then it becomes very powerful. It is a double edged sword however, and can be wielded poorly.