Static typing is a popular topic in a number of programming languages. The current flagship static typing solution for Ruby appears to be Sorbet. This epic covers investigating Sorbet in enough detail to determine the following:

• What a class using static typing via Sorbet looks like
• What changes to the driver are needed to support Sorbet
• What changes to applications using the driver are needed to support Sorbet
• How much effort would roughly be needed to convert the entire driver to static typing via Sorbet

This epic covers creating a proof of concept Sorbet implementation for a single class, followed by creating a scope and estimates for converting the entire driver to Sorbet.