I'm trying to wrap my head around variable scoping in Node.js and Vows?

Dbs scope is inside of that callback. You won't be able to access because invoke of this.callback() isn't scoped in that callback. You need to you pass it along with this.

Callback(null, dbs, twoDBs) or you create a var in topic and assign dbs to it in the callback. This isn't so much an issue with Vows; It has much more to do with JavaScript's lexical scoping and callbacks.

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