Is it possible to get stache to render .json files directly?

[jwir3]

I'm using Pattern Lab to derive my mustache templates. Or, rather, I'm writing the templates in pattern lab, alongside a series of .json files. This works fine, but it's somewhat tedious to have to convert the data from .json to the member methods of a ruby class.

Is there a way to get stache to simply render data from a .json file instead? What I'm looking for is something like:

module Pages
  class About < ::Stache::Mustache::View
    def data
      file = File.read('data/about.json')
      return JSON.parse(file)
    end
  end
end