title: Backbone View Uncaught Reference Error
body: <p>I'd appreciate help in understanding why I'm getting an uncaught
  reference error (see code below).
  Essentially, upon view initialization I'm fetching a model and within
  the render method I'm passing "this.model" -- the instance model -- to
  the template. In all other views, even when the instance model is
  undefined an uncaught reference error is NOT thrown. Does anyone know
  why it is thrown here?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Views.Projects.EditView = Backbone.View.extend({
  
      tagName: 'div',
  
      id: 'edit-project-content',
  
      template: JST['projects/edit'],
  
      initialize: function(){
          this.model = new Models.Project({id: this.options.projectId});
          this.model.bind('change', this.render, this);
          this.model.fetch({
              error: function(model, response) { alert('Error...Please try again.'); }
          });
      },
  
      render: function() {
          $(this.el).html(this.template({project: this.model})); // Error references this line.
          return this;
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Template:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% if (typeof project != 'undefined') { %&gt;
  &lt;div id="edit-details"&gt;
      &lt;form id="edit-project-form"&gt;
          &lt;ul&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;
                  &lt;p class='form-title'&gt;Edit Project: "&lt;%= project.get('title') %&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;
                  &lt;label for='project-title'&gt;Project Title:&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;input id='project-title' type='text' value="&lt;%= project.get('title') %&gt;" /&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;
                  &lt;label for='due-date'&gt;Due Date:&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;input id='due-date' type='text'&gt;&lt;/input&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;
                  &lt;label for='project-description'&gt;Description:&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;textarea id='project-description'&gt;&lt;%= project.get('description') %&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;
                  &lt;input id='submit-project-edits' type='submit' value='Edit' /&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;% } %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>