Ruby on Rails Ajax rubberband

Question

I want my users to be able to do a rubberband selection in a image for a Ruby on Rails application. Has anyone seen any good plugins that do this or make it easy for me to implement it?

Answer 1

I played around with an image cropper that has that feature, and it uses Prototype , so it should be good to go for ROR. The code is pretty easy to figure out if you just want the elastic band element.

If you want to roll-your-own it's not too hard to glue a Scriptaculous Draggable object to a DIV and resize/move the DIV. See my crappy demo .