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adaniele@nutcracker:~/ironruby$ mono bin/ir.exe 
IronRuby 1.0.0.1 on .NET 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Note that local variables do not work today in the console.
As a workaround, use globals instead (eg $x = 42 instead of x = 42).

>>> puts 'hello'
hello
=> nil
>>> exit
adaniele@nutcracker:~/ironruby$ mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 1.9 (/trunk/ r103309)
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           __thread
	GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC)
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notifications: epoll
	Architecture:  x86
	Disabled:      none