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this can be done with only a few simple lines of code using carrierwave/minimagick - very nice.

Thanks. I was able to figure it out and able to get it to work inside the rails uploader.

Hmm.. I just installed it using

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Now I am getting

http://i68.tinypic.com/21ex7kj.jpg

I am using RubyonRails mini_magick gem with Carrierwave

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2016-06-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
ubuntu

I am trying to write this code in ruby from the uploader.

all i need now is to get gravity center to ...

So if I start with an image that looks like this:

http://i67.tinypic.com/so8efd.jpg

what i want to do is to trim out as much whitespace as possible but i want to maintain the aspect ratio and i want the photos width/height to stay the same... so there might still be some whitespace at the end ...