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The Blackbaud FE NXT ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT account data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Blackbaud FE NXT data like you would a database and access data from Accounts, Budgets, Projects, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Connect to Blackbaud FE NXT Data in Ruby


Connect to Blackbaud FE NXT data in Ruby with ruby-dbi, dbd-odbc, and ruby-odbc.

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

Create an ODBC Connection to Blackbaud FE NXT 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.

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT 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 Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.

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 Blackbaud FE NXT Data

Create a new Ruby file (for example: FinancialEdgeNXTSelect.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 FinancialEdgeNXT Source','','') #execute a SELECT query and store the result set resultSet = cnxn.execute("SELECT AccountId, AccountNumber FROM Accounts") #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 Blackbaud FE NXT data with Ruby. To do so, simply run your file from the command line:

ruby FinancialEdgeNXTSelect.rb Writing SQL-92 queries to Blackbaud FE NXT allows you to quickly and easily incorporate Blackbaud FE NXT data into your own Ruby applications. Download a free trial today!