I suspect Rails the framework is as much to blame here as Ruby, OOP or dynamic typing. The siren song of static typing is loud today. Robert Smallshire has giv

I suspect Rails the framework is as much to blame here as Ruby, OOP or dynamic typing. The siren song of static typing is loud today. Robert Smallshire has given convincing -- and even evidence based -- arguments that it increases development time while catching only a very small percentage of bugs: http://vimeo.com/74354480 http://vimeo.com/74354480