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The Azure Active Directory ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Azure Active Directory, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Azure Active Directory data like you would a database - read, write, and update Azure Active Directory 0, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Connect to Azure Active Directory Data in Ruby


Connect to Azure Active Directory data in Ruby with ruby-dbi, dbd-odbc, and ruby-odbc.

The CData ODBC Driver for Azure Active Directory makes it easy to integrate connectivity to live Azure Active Directory data in Ruby. This article shows how to create a simple Ruby app that connects to Azure Active Directory data, executes a query, and displays the results.

Create an ODBC Connection to Azure Active Directory Data

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Azure Active Directory uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the OAuth section in the Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Installing Ruby and Necessary Gems

If you do not have Ruby installed, refer to the Ruby installation page. With Ruby installed, you will need to install the ruby-dbi, dbd-odbc, and ruby-odbc gems:

gem install dbi gem install dbd-odbc gem install ruby-odbc

Create a Ruby App with Connectivity to Azure Active Directory Data

Create a new Ruby file (for example: AzureADSelect.rb) and open it in a text editor. Copy the following code into your file:

#connect to the DSN require 'DBI' cnxn = DBI.connect('DBI:ODBC:CData AzureAD Source','','') #execute a SELECT query and store the result set resultSet = cnxn.execute("SELECT id, availabilityStatus FROM Domains WHERE isVerified = TRUE") #display the names of the columns resultSet.column_names.each do |name| print name, "\t" end puts #display the results while row = resultSet.fetch do (0..resultSet.column_names.size - 1).each do |n| print row[n], "\t" end puts end resultSet.finish #close the connection cnxn.disconnect if cnxn

With the file completed, you are ready to display your Azure Active Directory data with Ruby. To do so, simply run your file from the command line:

ruby AzureADSelect.rb Writing SQL-92 queries to Azure Active Directory allows you to quickly and easily incorporate Azure Active Directory data into your own Ruby applications. Download a free trial today!