Initial assumption would be that _page gets defined in a callback within a 
callback and _page.open gets called in a different callback so all that is 
asynchronous and there could be no guarantee that _page is defined by the 
time _page.open is called.

On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 4:39:36 PM UTC-4, CoffeeManiac wrote:
>
> I can't figure out why I lose the object instance for my variable _page 
> once it gets inside the function for the module.exports.  It bombs out here 
> because _page is undefined but it's fine and has an instance BEFORE this 
> _page.open 
>
> var phantom = require('phantom'), _ph, _page;
> var should = require('chai').should();
>
> phantom.create("--web-security=no", "--ignore-ssl-errors=yes", { port: 12345 
> }, function (ph) {
>     console.log("Phantom Bridge Initiated");
>     _ph = ph;
>
>     _ph.createPage(function(page) {
>         console.log("Page created!");
>         _page = page;
>     });
>
>     phaçntom.exit();
> });
>
>
> module.exports = function() {
>     "use strict";
>
>     this.Given(/^I visit the episodes display page$/, function (callback) {
>
>         console.log("_page: " + _page);
>         _page.open("/", function(status){
>
>             status.should.equal("success");
>         });
>
>         callback();
>
>     });
>
>
>     this.Then(/^I should not see any episodes listed$/, function (callback) {
>         //page.should.have.content("There are no episodes available");
>
>         callback.pending();
>     });
>
>
>
>     this.Given(/^there are some episodes to view$/, function (callback) {
>         // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>         callback.pending();
>     });
>
>     this.When(/^I go to the episodes display page$/, function (callback) {
>         // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>         callback.pending();
>     });
>
>     this.Then(/^I should see a list of episodes grouped by Topic$/, function 
> (callback) {
>         // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>         callback.pending();
>     });
>
>
> };
>
>

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