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authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2009-09-18 16:59:44 -0700
committerEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2009-09-18 17:22:19 -0700
commitce2602376cf586e68d11174004539609de6fa6b0 (patch)
tree3cf1df0d5d2c27af681899cd131db377d29f6483
parent14709a4e306aec175cadd88ddcabe599f4636ed5 (diff)
downloadunicorn-ce2602376cf586e68d11174004539609de6fa6b0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--README6
-rw-r--r--unicorn.gemspec8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index ac40005..a6a7be1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 = Unicorn: Rack HTTP server for Unix and fast clients
 
+Unicorn is a HTTP server for Rack applications designed to take
+advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels and only serve fast
+clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections.  Slow clients should
+only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully-buffering
+both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
+
 == Features
 
 * Designed for Rack, Unix, fast clients, and ease-of-debugging.  We
diff --git a/unicorn.gemspec b/unicorn.gemspec
index c2e1a99..b5af54d 100644
--- a/unicorn.gemspec
+++ b/unicorn.gemspec
@@ -9,13 +9,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.authors = ["Eric Wong"]
   s.date = Time.now.utc.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
-
-  s.description = %q{
-HTTP server for Rack applications designed to take advantage of features
-in Unix/Unix-like operating systems and serve low-latency, high-bandwidth
-clients (such as a buffering reverse proxy server).
-}.strip
-
+  s.description = File.read("README").split(/\n\n/)[1]
   s.email = %q{mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org}
   s.executables = %w(unicorn unicorn_rails)
   s.extensions = %w(ext/unicorn_http/extconf.rb)