[tharkun__]

That's a good enough (initial) workaround if you're in an environment where you're in the minority (or alone) w/ your opinion and you still want to do the right thing personally.

I would advise you to try and convince your peers though and teach them the better way because I suspect that the people that you're fending off would not do what you did but rather just go w/ the one

    expect(account1.balance).to eq account2.balance

Now while parts of the code base do the right thing (in a slightly long winded way), the rest of the code base written by these other people is still using bad tests.

[ilyt]

as long as there is

expect(account1.balance) eq 2500 before that isn't really a big problem.

Also "how to do it" is kinda different topic to "how to convince peers that's the right way"