Gargoyle is a platform built on top of Django which allows you to switch functionality of your application on and off based on conditions.

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Install it with pip (or easy_install):

pip install gargoyle

If you dont have Nexus already enabled, you will need to do that first.

(Nexus is a replacement for your Django admin frontend, that works with django.contrib.admin)

Now you just need to add Gargoyle to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'gargoyle',
)

Gargoyle is typically used in two fashions. The first and simplest, is as a decorator. The decorator will automatically integrate with filters registered to the User model, as well as IP address:

from gargoyle.decorators import switch_is_active

@switch_is_active('my switch name')
def my_view(request):
    return 'foo'

The second use is with the is_active method. This allows you to perform validation on your own custom objects:

from gargoyle import gargoyle

def my_function(request):
    if gargoyle.is_active('my switch name', request):
        return 'foo'
    else:
        return 'bar'

# with custom objects
from gargoyle import gargoyle

def my_method(user):
    if gargoyle.is_active('my switch name', user):
        return 'foo'
    else:
        return 'bar'

Gargoyle provides an easy way to hook in your own condition sets to allow additional filters. Simply place a ConditionSet class in myapp/gargoyle.py and it will automatically discover it:

from __future__ import absolute_import
import gargoyle
from gargoyle import conditions
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

class SiteConditionSet(conditions.ModelConditionSet):
    percent = conditions.Percent()
    domain = conditions.String()

gargoyle.register(SiteConditionSet(Site))

And now you can pass it into is_active:

gargoyle.is_active('my switch name', Site.objects.get_current())