diff --git a/lib/action_controller/serialization.rb b/lib/action_controller/serialization.rb
index a659c8d7..acafc0fd 100644
--- a/lib/action_controller/serialization.rb
+++ b/lib/action_controller/serialization.rb
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ module ActionController
           @_serializer_opts[:scope_name] = _serialization_scope
 
           begin
-            object   = serializer.new(resource, @_serializer_opts)
-          rescue ActiveModel::Serializer::ArraySerializer::Error
+            serialized = serializer.new(resource, @_serializer_opts)
+          rescue ActiveModel::Serializer::ArraySerializer::NoSerializerError
           else
-            resource = ActiveModel::Serializer::Adapter.create(object, @_adapter_opts)
+            resource = ActiveModel::Serializer::Adapter.create(serialized, @_adapter_opts)
           end
         end
 
diff --git a/lib/active_model/serializer.rb b/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
index 8594d14e..7e4eb0d6 100644
--- a/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
+++ b/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
@@ -211,13 +211,7 @@ module ActiveModel
               association_value,
               options.except(:serializer).merge(serializer_from_options(association_options))
             )
-          rescue ActiveModel::Serializer::ArraySerializer::Error
-            # 1. Failure to serialize an element in a collection, e.g. [ {hi: "Steve" } ] will fail
-            #    with NoMethodError when the ArraySerializer finds no serializer for the hash { hi: "Steve" },
-            #    and tries to call new on that nil.
-            # 2. Convert association_value to hash using implicit as_json
-            # 3. Set as virtual value (serializer is nil)
-            # 4. Consider warning when this happens
+          rescue ActiveModel::Serializer::ArraySerializer::NoSerializerError
             virtual_value = association_value
             virtual_value = virtual_value.as_json if virtual_value.respond_to?(:as_json)
             association_options[:association_options][:virtual_value] = virtual_value
diff --git a/lib/active_model/serializer/array_serializer.rb b/lib/active_model/serializer/array_serializer.rb
index bd73fd9e..fa66e290 100644
--- a/lib/active_model/serializer/array_serializer.rb
+++ b/lib/active_model/serializer/array_serializer.rb
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 module ActiveModel
   class Serializer
     class ArraySerializer
-      Error = Class.new(StandardError)
+      NoSerializerError = Class.new(StandardError)
       include Enumerable
       delegate :each, to: :@objects
 
-      attr_reader :meta, :meta_key, :objects
+      attr_reader :meta, :meta_key
 
       def initialize(objects, options = {})
         @resource = objects
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ module ActiveModel
           )
 
           if serializer_class.nil?
-            fail Error, "No serializer found for object: #{object.inspect}"
+            fail NoSerializerError, "No serializer found for object: #{object.inspect}"
           else
             serializer_class.new(object, options.except(:serializer))
           end