china_regions

ChinaRegions

ChinaRegions provides Ruby on Rails code for provinces, cities, and districts [prefecture-level cities] in China. The code need to requires Ruby (> 1.9.x) and Rails (> 4.0).

Data Sources

• Ministry of Civil Affairs, National Bureau of Statistics:
  • State Statistics Bureau of the People's Republic of China-Statistical Divisions and Urban-Rural Division Codes
  • State Statistics Bureau of the People's Republic of China-Statistical Division Codes and Urban-rural Division Codes Compilation Rules
• This item has been updated to:
  • 2018 zoning code and urban-rural division code for statistics (cut-off time: 2018-10-31, release time: 2019-01-31)

How to update data

If you are using ChinaRegions version 0.1.x be sure to run:

rails g china_regions:regions

to have the javascript file copied over into your project.

Installation

Add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'china_regions'

Run the following command to install it:

bundle install

Run the generator:

rails g china_regions:install

Then you can see the changes that happened to the console:

• Copy db/migrate/xxxxxxxxxxx_create_china_regions_tables.rb to db/migrate folder.
• Copy regions.en.yml and regions.zh.yml files to config/locales folders

Create tables (provinces, cities, districts):

rake db:migrate

Copy Models [Province, City, District] into your project:

rails g china_regions:regions

Newly added models:

• create app/models/province.rb
• create app/models/city.rb
• create app/models/district.rb

Download and import the latest regions to your project:

rake china_regions:all

OR

rake china_regions:download
rake china_regions:import

• Downloading regions from Administrative-divisions-of-China to db/regions folder.
  • db/regions/pca-code.json
• Import the regions into provinces and cities, districts

Usage

Example:

= form_for @article do |f|

  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district]

  # form_tag
  = region_select :article, :province_id
  = region_select :article, :city_id
  = region_select :article, :district_id

  OR

  = region_select :article, :province
  = region_select :article, :city
  = region_select :article, :district

  = f.submit class: 'btn'

Add prefix name:

= form_for @article do |f|

  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district], :prefix => "home"
  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district], :prefix => "work"

Pre-selected province:

= form_for @article do |f|
  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district], province: "chongqing"

  OR

  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district], province: "重庆市"

Prior choice:

= form_for @article do |f|
  = f.region_select [:province, :city, :district],
          priority: {
            province: ["重庆市"],
            district: %w(巴南区 北碚区 渝北区)
          }

Other languages

• Chinese

Contributing

We have a list of valued contributors. Check them all at: https://github.com/encoreshao/china_regions/graphs/contributors

License

Copyright © 2020-02 Encore Shao. See LICENSE for details.