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

Access QuickBooks Online data like you would a database - read, write, and update Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Connect to QuickBooks Online Data in Ruby


Connect to QuickBooks Online data in Ruby with ruby-dbi, dbd-odbc, and ruby-odbc.

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

Create an ODBC Connection to QuickBooks Online 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.

QuickBooks Online uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to log in through the browser. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can obtain your own by registering an app with Intuit. Additionally, if you want to connect to sandbox data, set UseSandbox to true.

See the Getting Started chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

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 QuickBooks Online Data

Create a new Ruby file (for example: QuickBooksOnlineSelect.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 QuickBooksOnline Source','','') #execute a SELECT query and store the result set resultSet = cnxn.execute("SELECT DisplayName, Balance FROM Customers") #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 QuickBooks Online data with Ruby. To do so, simply run your file from the command line:

ruby QuickBooksOnlineSelect.rb Writing SQL-92 queries to QuickBooks Online allows you to quickly and easily incorporate QuickBooks Online data into your own Ruby applications. Download a free trial today!