diff --git a/src/binary/Yast.cc b/src/binary/Yast.cc
index d31e0502..ab05caff 100644
--- a/src/binary/Yast.cc
+++ b/src/binary/Yast.cc
@@ -521,6 +521,10 @@ static VALUE ui_set_component(VALUE self, VALUE name)
 
 static void init_ui()
 {
+  // init_ui is needed only if run via rspec, if y2base is used ENV is initialized
+  if (getenv("YAST_IS_RUNNING") != NULL)
+    return;
+
   const char *ui_name = "UI";
 
   Y2Component *c = YUIComponent::uiComponent();
@@ -543,6 +547,27 @@ static void init_ui()
   }
 }
 
+static VALUE ui_create(VALUE self, VALUE name, VALUE args)
+{
+  Y2ComponentBroker::getNamespaceComponent("UI");
+
+  string name_s = StringValuePtr(name);
+  y2debug("creating UI %s", name_s.c_str());
+  Y2Component *server = Y2ComponentBroker::createServer(name_s.c_str());
+  int argc = RARRAY_LENINT(args);
+  char **argv = new char *[argc+1];
+  for (long i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
+  {
+    VALUE a = rb_ary_entry(args, i);
+    argv[i] = strdup(StringValuePtr(a));
+  }
+  argv[argc] = NULL;
+
+  server->setServerOptions(argc, argv);
+
+  return Qnil;
+}
+
 static VALUE ui_finalizer()
 {
   YUIComponent *c = YUIComponent::uiComponent();
@@ -586,9 +611,10 @@ extern "C"
     rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "y2_logger", RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(yast_y2_logger), -1);
 
     // UI initialization
+    rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "ui_create",     RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(ui_create), 2);
     rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "ui_component",  RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(ui_get_component), 0);
     rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "ui_component=", RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(ui_set_component), 1);
-    rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "ui_finalizer",     RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(ui_finalizer), 0);
+    rb_define_singleton_method( rb_mYast, "ui_finalizer",  RUBY_METHOD_FUNC(ui_finalizer), 0);
 
     // Y2 references
     rb_cYReference = rb_define_class_under(rb_mYast, "YReference", rb_cObject);
diff --git a/src/y2base/y2base b/src/y2base/y2base
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..9962b7d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/y2base/y2base
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#! /usr/bin/ruby
+
+# TODO: signal handling
+# TODO: option parsing
+# TODO: umask
+# TODO: pathsearch initialization
+
+require "yast"
+
+Yast.create_ui(ARGV[0],[])
+Yast::WFM.CallFunction(ARGV[1])
+
+0