Handling bug http://bugs.joindiaspora.com/issues/767

Added email argument to task, warn and replace if address resolves to
an invalid user@domain one.

db/seeds/add_user.rb

@@ -26,8 +26,16 @@ def read_password
 end
 
 username = (ARGS[:username] || 'admin').dup
-email = ARGS[:email] || "#{username}@#{AppConfig[:pod_uri].host}"
 password = ARGS[:password] || read_password
+email = ARGS[:email] || "#{username}@#{AppConfig[:pod_uri].host}"
+if email =~ /localhost$/
+  puts "WARNING: localhost will not validate as an email domain"
+  puts "\tupdate your email address, if you require email notifications for this account"
+  puts "\trake db:first_user[username,password,email]"
+  puts "\trake db:add_user[username,password]"
+  puts "\tor modify your data store"
+  email = 'username@example.com'
+end
 
 user = User.build(:email => email,
                   :username => username,
@@ -46,7 +54,7 @@ user.valid?
 errors = user.errors
 errors.delete :person
 if errors.size > 0
-  raise "Error(s) creating user #{username}: #{errors.full_messages.to_s}"
+  raise "Error(s) creating user #{username} / #{email}: #{errors.full_messages.to_s}"
 end
 
 user.save

lib/tasks/db.rake

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ namespace :db do
       create
     end
 
-    task :first_user, :username, :password do |t, args|
+    task :first_user, :username, :password, :email do |t, args|
       puts "Setting up first user in #{Rails.env} database"
       ARGS = args
       require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../db/seeds/add_user'
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ namespace :db do
   end
 
   desc "Purge database and then add the first user"
-  task :first_user, :username, :password do |t, args|
+  task :first_user, :username, :password, :email do |t, args|
     Rake::Task['db:purge'].invoke
-    Rake::Task['db:seed:first_user'].invoke(args[:username], args[:password])
+    Rake::Task['db:seed:first_user'].invoke(args[:username], args[:password], args[:email])
   end
   task :first_user => :environment