Set environment variables on Mac OS X Lion

Question

When someone says \"edit your .plist file\" or \"your .profile\" or \".bash_profile\" etc, this just confuses me. I have no idea where these files are, how to create them if

Answer 1

Step1: open ~/.bash_profile

Now a text editor opens:

Step2: variable name should be in capitals. in this example variable is NODE_ENV

Step3: export NODE_ENV=development

Save it and close.

Restart your system.

Done.

To check env variable: open terminal and type

echo $NODE_ENV