Avoiding RSpec `let!` Pitfalls

07-Nov-2025 598
This is not a new topic; various resources have addressed it in different ways. Here are my reasons and explanations for why I prefer not to use 'let!' in RSpec. When I work on a project that uses RSpec, I prefer not to use let!. Instead, I call the let variable inside the before block.
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