Resolve “Could not dump table because of following FrozenError can’t modify frozen String: “false”

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If you encountered this problem in your schema.rb file:

# Could not dump table "users" because of following FrozenError
#   can't modify frozen String: "false"

Then, do the following:

1. Create file config/initializers/prepare_column_options.rb with the following content:

module ActiveRecord
  module ConnectionAdapters
    module ColumnDumper
      def prepare_column_options(column, types)
        spec = {}
        spec[:name]      = column.name.inspect
        spec[:type]      = column.type.to_s
        spec[:null]      = 'false' unless column.null

        limit = column.limit || types[column.type][:limit]
        spec[:limit]     = limit.inspect if limit
        spec[:precision] = column.precision.inspect if column.precision
        spec[:scale]     = column.scale.inspect if column.scale

        default = schema_default(column).dup if column.has_default?
        spec[:default]   = default unless default.nil?

        spec
      end
    end
  end
end

2. Run bundle exec rake db:schema:dump to recreate the schema.rb file.

And you will not see the following error in your schema.rb file anymore when you run rails db:migrate.

Source: Abdul Rehman at Stack Overflow.