Sinatra has sinatra/contrib
to asist with this, what's the equivalent in Ramaze? I'm using Erubis by the way. Also, a quick Google search shows up really old pages that insist setting variables in the controllers and using them in the views.
Edit 1:
Taken from the gem documentation (http://www.sinatrarb.com/contrib/content_for.html)
You call content_for, generally from a view, to capture a block of markup giving it an identifier:
# index.erb
<% content_for :some_key do %>
<chunk of="html">...</chunk>
<% end %>
Then, you call yield_content with that identifier, generally from a layout, to render the captured block:
# layout.erb
<%= yield_content :some_key %>