I’m always interested when someone claims to develop a working application with minimal amount of coding. This article on the O'Reilly OnLamp.com site shows how to build a webapp using Ruby with the Rails framework. When they say minimal lines of code they really mean it.
Take a look and see what you think. I haven’t used Ruby yet either, but this framework could be a good reason to start learning…
More info on Ruby here, and the home page for Ruby on Rails is here.