Is Ruby a strongly typed or a weakly typed language?

Ruby is a strongly typed language. This means that Ruby enforces strict type checking at runtime, and it does not allow implicit type conversion between incompatible types. In Ruby, every object knows its type, and operations on objects are checked against their types to ensure correctness. For instance, if you attempt to add a string to an integer, Ruby will raise a TypeError because it does not implicitly convert the integer to a string or vice versa to perform the operation.

The distinction between strong and weak typing is not about whether a language is statically or dynamically typed. Ruby is dynamically typed, meaning that types are checked at runtime rather than at compile time, but this does not affect its status as strongly typed. In dynamically typed languages like Ruby, the type of a variable can change, but once the type of an object is set, Ruby expects operations on that object to be type-consistent.

This strong typing characteristic of Ruby is highlighted by the fact that explicit type conversions are required to perform operations between different types. For example, to concatenate a string with an integer, you would need to explicitly convert the integer to a string using the .to_s method[1][3][4].

Ruby's strong typing is also evident in the way it handles method dispatching. When a method is called on an object, Ruby checks if the ...