Well, in ruby everything is an object that is a member of some class. Those classes have specific properties that only allow for specific methods to be applied

Well, in ruby everything is an object that is a member of some class. Those classes have specific properties that only allow for specific methods to be applied on them. Ie, integers are members of the numeric::integer class, and if you want to use that integer as part of a string in output, you do have to convert it to a string first using a method defined as such. So, what exactly do you see as missing in ruby's typing?