# Setting up a Development Environment on OSX **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 24, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment-on-osx/11441 "2012-04-24T16:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chris\_Read](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Chris\_Read](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Read)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment-on-osx/11441/1 "2012-04-24T16:13:06Z")
Greetings all... I'm trying to get a dev environment set up on OSX Lion. I'm getting there slowly, but was wondering where the best place would be to document the things I've needed to do to make all the tests pass. Chris ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment-on-osx/11441/2 "2012-04-24T16:41:44Z")
Get your info together and file a ticket with notes at [github.com/ansible/ansible.github.com](http://github.com/ansible/ansible.github.com), which is the docs project. I can add it to the web page. Actually maybe share here first and we can talk about what we might want to do, if anything, to improve stuff. –Michael ---
**Author:** ![Rodney\_Quillo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Rodney\_Quillo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rodney_Quillo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment-on-osx/11441/3 "2012-04-25T02:36:25Z")
Hmm... I think using Python virtualenv for OSX for ansible environment might also be a good idea. My .2cents 🙂 Rodney