Updated project description

README.markdown

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Authority
 
-Authority gives you a clean and easy way to say, in your Rails app, **who** is allowed to do **what** with your models. Unauthorized actions get a warning and an entry in a log file.
+Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's **ORM-neutral** and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.
+
+Authority will work fine with a standalone app or a single sign-on system. You can check roles in a database or permissions in a YAML file. It doesn't care! What it **does** do is give you an easy way to organize your logic, define a default strategy, and handle unauthorized actions.
 
 It requires that you already have some kind of user object in your application, accessible from all controllers and views via a method like `current_user` (configurable).
 
@@ -47,8 +49,6 @@ The goals of Authority are:
 - To gracefully handle any access violations: display a "you can't do that" screen and log the violation.
 - To do all this with minimal effort and mess.
 
-Notably, Authority is **ORM-neutral** and has **no magical rules syntax**. Authority helps your classes communicate, but your authorization logic goes in normal Ruby methods.
-
 <a name="flow_of_authority">
 ## The flow of Authority
 

authority.gemspec

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ require File.expand_path('../lib/authority/version', __FILE__)
 Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.authors       = ["Nathan Long", "Adam Hunter"]
   gem.email         = ["nathanmlong@gmail.com", "adamhunter@me.com"]
-  gem.description   = %q{Gem for managing authorization on model actions in Rails.}
-  gem.summary       = %q{Authority gives you a clean and easy way to say, in your Rails app, **who** is allowed to do **what** with your models, with minimal clutter.}
+  gem.summary       = %q{Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app using plain Ruby methods on Authorizer classes.}
+  gem.description   = %q{Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.}
   gem.homepage      = "https://github.com/nathanl/authority"
 
   gem.add_dependency "rails", ">= 3.0.0"