diff --git a/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr b/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..7d1cc9fe71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+export M2_HOME=$HOME/m2
+export JRUBY_HOME=$HOME/jruby
+export CLASSPATH=$M2_HOME/lib/maven-embedder-2.1-SNAPSHOT-uber.jar
+$JRUBY_HOME/bin/jruby $M2_HOME/bin/mvnr.rb
diff --git a/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr.rb b/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f5dd81f82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-embedder/src/bin/mvnr.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+require 'java'
+
+class Maven
+  def initialize goals
+    @goals = goals
+  end
+
+  include_class 'java.io.File'
+  include_class 'org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedder'
+  include_class 'org.apache.maven.embedder.DefaultConfiguration'
+  include_class 'org.apache.maven.execution.DefaultMavenExecutionRequest'
+
+  def run        
+    configuration = DefaultConfiguration.new    
+    maven = MavenEmbedder.new(configuration)    
+    r = DefaultMavenExecutionRequest.new
+    r.setBaseDirectory( File.new( "." ) ) 
+    r.setGoals( @goals )                                                                                                                          
+    result = maven.execute( r );   
+  end
+end
+
+m = Maven.new( ["clean"] ).run