Serialized methods that return nil should not be considered YAML #200
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The way ActiveModel computes the type of serializable methods and attributes, any that return nil will be described as being YAML.
This produces XML like:
However, in many cases, the 'type="yaml"' part is unnecessary, and potentially misleading.
With this patch, the equivalent to the above XML would be: