zena is a state-of-the-art CMS (content managment system) based on Ruby on Rails with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness (application like behaviour).

You can watch the videos to get a first idea.

With zena you can create a web site and easily update it’s content without taking the phone to reach your webmaster. But unlike most other tools, there is no admin interface in zena. You add, remove, update the content where you and your users see it: on the page. Actually, zena is so customizable that’s it’s more a content management framework then a CMS.

To have a better view on zena, you can read the full list of features or dive directly into the documentation. If you just want to follow the development of zena, you can read the blog.

Want to try ?

Take the easy route:

install a virtual box !

or get the sources

# git clone git://github.com/zena/zena.git

... and read the installation manual.

List of the things that need to be done before we can announce a public beta release.