# Including a default set of translations with a gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-a-default-set-of-translations-with-a-gem/204414>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [March 11, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-a-default-set-of-translations-with-a-gem/204414 "2011-03-11T13:58:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/including-a-default-set-of-translations-with-a-gem/204414/1 "2011-03-11T13:58:03Z")

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I’m probably missing something here, but after about an hour of  
digging around I couldn’t figure this out, so I figured I’d ask. I’ve  
got a gem that I’d like to add I18N support to. The gem has absolutely  
no connection to Rails whatsoever, but I’d love it to be set up such  
that if a user overrides the translated strings in their Rails  
configured locales they would be overridden.

How do I go about including a set of translations within my gem?