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You can quickly toggle a "NOT NULL" constraint in a Rails migration with the change_column_null method.

To add the constraint:

change_column_null :users, :email, false

To remove the constraint:

change_column_null :users, :email, true

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Toggle NOT NULL constraints with Rails migrations