How do I drag a jQuery slider handle from within Capybara and ChromeDriver?

Question

I am able to execute the following code to move the slider handle, but the events triggered in the browser are not taking place.

page.execute_script(%Q($(\         


        

Answer 1

resynchronize has been removed from Capybara 2.0 so user853088's answer for Selenium would now look like this:

module CapybaraSeleniumExtension
  def drag_by(right_by, down_by)
    driver.browser.action.drag_and_drop_by(native, right_by, down_by).perform
  end
end