Rails - May 2011 - How do you crop an image with carrierwave 'after the fact' in rails?

What I''d like to do is upload an image, then take the user to a new
page where I will use Jcrop to let the user select the part of the
image they want to crop, and then store that image. Essentially, I
want to make it a 2-stage process.

I know how to do the javascript part, and I understand the basic flow
of how to create this functionality. However, I am not aware of the
carrierwave specifics on how to accomplish this.

The closest thing I can find is:

       image.recreate_versions!

But I still can''t pass in the height/width and starting x,y to crop
it.

For example, how can I tell carrierwave to do the cropping ''after the
fact'' - i.e. not when the image is uploaded for the first time? I see
methods to "process" the image, but they happen automatically with
fixed Height and Width. How can I delay this?

Thanks

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This is the best I can do. There''s probably an easier way to do it,
but this is my hack:

Here is my ''POST'' controller action when the cropping info is
passed:

      def update_crop
        @user = User.find(current_user.id)
        @user.crop(params[:x].to_i, params[:y].to_i, params[:h].to_i,
params[:w].to_i)

        redirect_to(profile_path, :notice => ''Your profile and
avatar
was successfully updated.'')
      end

Here is the method to add to the User model that contains an "avatar"
image uploader:

      def crop(x, y, h, w)
        image = Magick::ImageList.new(avatar.current_path)
        cropped_image = image.crop(x, y, h, w)
        cropped_image.write(avatar.current_path)

        avatar.recreate_versions!
      end

Basically this just hi-jacks the current one, overwrites it, and then
tells Carrierwave to create the thumbnail again with the new cropped
version. Seems to work.

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