I started to rewrite my rakefile for latex authoring today. The focus of this endeavor is a more modular and object oriented design in addition to more intelligent decisions about how many latex runs that really are needed. Stripping of LaTeX’s overly verbose output would also be nice (inspiration drawn from latex-make). My last effort in this vein was more of a fast hack. I have thought about maybe using behavior driven development with rSpec on this project down the road. I also plan to release my results under a liberal license once I have something that is ready for human consumption.