Using before(:all) and after(:all) is very helpful for speeding up test cases where lots of objects are needed for stateful testing. The existing snippets are inconsistent since bef gives you

before do
end

and aft gives you

after(:each) do
end

Since before == before(:each) which is probably the most common use case, I didn't want to modify that. So I just added befa and afta to explicitly expand to before(:all) and after(:all)