From ce2602376cf586e68d11174004539609de6fa6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:59:44 -0700 Subject: README/gemspec: a better description, hopefully --- README | 6 ++++++ unicorn.gemspec | 8 +------- 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) -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7