Example of Rakefile (used to produce pdf files from LaTeX source)

Output of rake -T for this Rakefile

LPPbook_git (master)$ rake -T
rake clean                    # Remove any temporary products.
rake clobber                  # Remove any generated file.
rake dist                     # Builds a zip file
rake html                     # Build the HTML from the latex sources
rake images                   # Copy images into perlexamples/
rake perlexamples.pdf         # Build perlexamples.pdf with index and biblio
rake perlexamples.tex         # Builds perlexamples.tt2 (Using Perl Template) to LaTeX
rake perlexamples/index.html  # Build the HTML from the latex sources
rake publichtml               # Publish the HTML files into the remote server

Rakefile

# Moving to Git 7 12 2011
# mac OS latex
#MacBook-Air-de-casiano:LPPbook casiano$ tree ~/Library/texmf/
#/Users/casiano/Library/texmf/
#├── bibtex
#├── makeindex
#└── tex
#    └── latex
#        └── html.sty
#

MAINNAME = 'perlexamples'
PDFLATEX = "/usr/texbin/pdflatex"
ZIPFILE  = "LPPbook"
TEXFILES = ['ruby.tex', 'perlbib/perl.bib']

LATEX2HTMLOPTIONS = '-html_version 4.0,latin1,unicode -contents_in_navigation -style mystyle.css -white -local_icons'

task :default => [:images, :publichtml, :dist] 

desc "Build #{MAINNAME}.pdf with index and biblio"
file "#{MAINNAME}.pdf" => ["#{MAINNAME}.tex"]+TEXFILES do
	sh "#{PDFLATEX} #{MAINNAME}.tex"
	sh "bibtex #{MAINNAME}"
	sh "makeindex -c #{MAINNAME}.idx"
	sh "#{PDFLATEX} #{MAINNAME}.tex"
end

desc "Builds #{MAINNAME}.tt2 (Using Perl Template) to LaTeX"
file "#{MAINNAME}.tex" => [ "#{MAINNAME}.tt2"] do
	sh %{perl booktt/commontex/tt2.pl}
end

require 'rake/clean'
CLEANLIST = [ "#{MAINNAME}.ps", '*.toc', '*.log', '*.dvi', '*.aux', '*.bbl', '*.blg', 'tmp']
CLEAN.include(CLEANLIST)

task :clean do
  sh "rm -fR #{MAINNAME}/"
end

desc "Build the HTML from the latex sources"
file "#{MAINNAME}/index.html" => "#{MAINNAME}.pdf"  do
	sh %Q{
      latex2html #{LATEX2HTMLOPTIONS} #{MAINNAME}
      cp mystyle.css #{MAINNAME}/
    }
end

desc "Publish the HTML files into the remote server"
task :publichtml => [ :html, "#{ENV['HOME']}/public_html/#{MAINNAME}/index.html" ] 

file "#{ENV['HOME']}/public_html/#{MAINNAME}/index.html" => "#{MAINNAME}/index.html" do
	sh %Q{rsync -aue ssh  #{MAINNAME}/ lpp:public_html/#{MAINNAME}/}
end

desc "Build the HTML from the latex sources"
task :html => "#{MAINNAME}/index.html"

desc "Builds a zip file"
task :dist do
	sh "zip -r #{ZIPFILE}.zip #{MAINNAME}"
end

desc "Copy images into #{MAINNAME}/"
task :images do
	sh %Q{
      test -d #{MAINNAME} || mkdir -p #{MAINNAME}/
      cp images/* #{MAINNAME}/
    }
end