exif image rotation issue using carrierwave and rmagick to upload to s3

Question

I\'ve got a photo upload feature in my rails app. The app uploads direct to s3 through carrierwave via rmagick and fog. The issue I am having is when a photo is uploaded via

Answer 1

Lando2319's answer was not working for me.

I am using RMagick.

I managed to make ImageMagick apply the correct orientation (and to reset the EXIF rotation data in order to avoid a double rotation by the viewer) by using :

def fix_exif_rotation # put this before any other process in the Carrierwave uploader

manipulate! do |img|
  img.tap(&:auto_orient!)
end

The difference between my solution & Lando's is the bang (!). In my case it was absolutely necessary.