What version of scalate/OS/configuration you are using?
On OS X, with Scalate 1.5.3 i've got the following:
mcbatyuk:scalate bam$ cat view1.jade
p 1
mcbatyuk:scalate bam$ cat view2.jade
p 2
mcbatyuk:scalate bam$ cat compound.jade
- include("view1.jade")
- include("view2.jade")
Now running the compound template:
scalate> run compound.jade
<p>1</p>
<p>2</p>
I'm concerned with the fact that running from the command line $ scalate run compound.jade doesn't actually do anything, but that's another story :-)