From 5d27d0303952e2e31e9d5b6b8c881fc76c6a26a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Artnik <martin@scinote.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 11:42:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix experiment description normalize method in serializer
 [SCI-12105]

---
 app/serializers/lists/experiment_serializer.rb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/serializers/lists/experiment_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/lists/experiment_serializer.rb
index fdab8e77d..1fd5a52f6 100644
--- a/app/serializers/lists/experiment_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/lists/experiment_serializer.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ module Lists
 
     # normalize description to handle legacy description newlines
     def description
+      return unless object.description
+
       # if description includes HTML, it is already in the new format.
       return object.description if object.description.match?(/<(.|\n)*?>/)