Rails.logger is nil when invoking rake tasks [Ruby: 2.1.0p0, Rails: 4.0.2]

mytask.rake

task :foo do
  if Rails.logger.nil?
    puts "WAT"
  end
end

shell session

ಠ_ಠ rails -v
Rails 4.0.2
ಠ_ಠ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.0p0 (2013-12-25 revision 44422) [x86_64-darwin12.0]
ಠ_ಠ rails new mytest
....
Your bundle is complete!
Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
ಠ_ಠ cd mytest/
ಠ_ಠ cat lib/tasks/mytask.rake
task :foo do
  if Rails.logger.nil?
    puts "WAT"
  end
end
ಠ_ಠ rake foo
WAT
ಠ_ಠ

This ML reply helped me understand that I was forgetting to require the :environment task.

task :foo => [:environment] do
  if Rails.logger.nil?
    puts "WAT"
  end
end