Ignore validations for admin user

[anklos]

Background

I want to ignore some model validations validations for admin user.

Solutions:

1. I tried https://github.com/stephskardal/rails_admin_import gem where you can assign an attribute in the import hooks: https://github.com/stephskardal/rails_admin_import#import-hooks. However in my Rails 5 the before_import_save cannot be triggered at all when an object gets updated.

2. I am thinking to use Thread.current to store the user object in controller, then use it in model. But I don't know how i can get the user in the rails_admin. For example, I have a bids controller /bids. Since the admin panel uses another one /admin/panels, so i cannot set a before_action in my bids controller to get current user.

Any suggestion please? Thanks a lot!