title: Helper functions in Kiwi specs
body: <p>I have a few repetitive specs that I would like to DRY up.  The common functionality doesn't lend itself to moving into a <code>beforeEach</code> block.  Essentially, it's object creation and is 4 lines for each of 12 objects, I'd like to turn those 4 lines into a single function call.</p>
  
  <p>Where can I put helper functions in a Kiwi spec?</p>
  
  <p>In RSpec I can just put <code>def</code> between spec blocks, but that doesn't appear to be possible here.  I've even tried skipping the <code>SPEC_END</code> macro and adding that content myself so I could add functions inside the @implementation from <code>SPEC_BEGIN</code> but that doesn't seem to work, either.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Correction</strong>... I can manage something that kind of works with hand-coding the <code>SPEC_END</code> macro.  I had the end } mis-placed.  But still, it fails, because the method isn't in the <code>@interface</code>.</p>