Ruby and its ease or toughness to learn?

Is having a loosely typed language necessary for creating ease of programming?

 

I have worked in programming languages such as c, c+=, java, php, jsp etc. I was trying to study ruby deeply. It looks like if you are a fan of programming systematically and sticking to some standards, ruby might give tough time in making you understand its loosely typed programming manners.

 

Although, a couple of things are fine. But on a whole, I still want to remain with tougher programming languages.:)