> As far as IoC containers are concerned, I don't see
  > Ruby/Python communities using it, mainly because half of
  > it is fighting static typing.

Exactly. Jim Weirich gave a presentation on DI 2005 http://onestepback.org/articles/depinj/index.html also see a nice writeup by the Jamis Buck—the author of a couple of DI frameworks: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro...

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro...