Another contender in the RubyOnRails CMS arena

I was asked to do a quick review of a new CMS called Ansuz. It's available on Github and is being developed currently. A few quick things for those interested in using it:

* It's under development as we speak, so there's a lack of documentation, almost non-existant

* If you're looking for something to get up and running ASAP, you might want to look at RadiantCMS 

How easy is it to install?

Somewhat easy.  It's not as easy as RadiantCMS, but the README on Github did a pretty good job in getting my install up and running in about 5-10min.

Everyone want's their own functionality.. so what about creating my own Plugin for Ansuz?
Luckily, the Ansuz guy's wanted to lower the barrier of entry and used Desert by the Pivotal guys to help with the plugin architecture.  

How hard is it to implement the Plugin that I build?

The act of building a plugin is easier than other CMS's, but implementing it into Ansuz might be another problem.  Since I haven't given quite enough time to actually implementing one, I'll leave this to be discovered, soon.  

Does it have a cool interface like the other CMS packages out there?

No.  Ansuz's admin interface so far is very crude.  You can't knock it just yet, since it's still being developed.  So if you're a designer, help these guys out and jump in there!  The functionality of the admin interface doesn't seem too bad though.  Is it easy to understand? Sorta-kinda. It seems like there might be "too much" going on in the Admin interface, again, this could be dealt with after the majority of the CMS is done.

How's the quality of the code-base if my company were to use it and build on it?

Even though I would love for a company to use my open-sourced code, if it were still under development, I wouldn't feel right suggesting it to be used in production for a critical app just yet.

I'll continue my review and writing some documentation for Ansuz, so if you have any questions leave a comment and I'll see if I can't help you! 

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update

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Ansuz uses Engines instead of Desert for their plugins.