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Some years later, I had a hunch about how snippets of text could be assembled into documents. I expressed the hunch as best I could to Jay Hancock, who coded a system based on Ruby on Rails. I spent much of a year learning the framework and enough Ruby to be able to continue work, and one day the critical idea found me. That idea is what I have since learned is prototype inheritance. The RoR app could render documents from sources that were in local files, in a database or at URLs, all at the same time. This meant that I could use an html editor like OpenOffice to edit large texts and could put small texts in a local version of Mediawiki.