At Twitter we run into a very common case where we want to have one template where we maintain the "bones" of the page and each real page on the site merely replaces sections of that page with appropriate content. We would like to avoid putting any business logic in the bones of the page for including the right content, nor do we want to write custom backing code for each of those pages.

I give up trying to put my code in the issue, here is a gist: https://gist.github.com/1854699