If you compare the open source Content Management Systems available in rails, with those availble in PHP, Java, Python [ie: Django], and even dotnet, I think that you'll be disappointed by the feature sets of the rails
software.
Although lovdbyless & the community engine plugin, whilst not strictly being CMS's provide a social network/blog straight out of the box with a feature set that exceeds the PHP CMS's - for the social networking side of things.
This is not such a big surprise. Firstly the majority of the open source CMS's [ie: Joomla & Django] are quite mature compared to the rails options. Secondly, and much more importantly [having battled with Joomla quite a bit] .. I think the Rails way would be to build it yourself.
Restful authentication, Restful scaffolding, layouts, plugins, & the mentioned above make it possible to build something quite quickly.
Building it yourself means your not constrained by what someone else thinks you needs. The flipside is you need to have the chops to develop what you want. Just as importantly, you need to know what you want.
On the ruby on rails home page there is a screencast of someone building a blog in 15 minutes. Its not very pretty & its not something I would ever put into production use, but you get the idea of rapid development.
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