%div.all-slides
  %h2.slides-title Slides
  - (1..10).each do |i|
    %div.slide Slide

%div#cloned-slides.cloned-slides 
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* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

html {
  font-family: "Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, sans-serif;
  font-size: 13px;
}

html, body {
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}

body {
  background: #8D939D;
  margin: 0;
}

.all-slides {
  background: #E3E7ED;
  counter-reset: slides;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 150px;
  padding: 3rem 1rem 1rem 2rem;
  height: 100%;
  overflow: auto;
}

.slides-title {
  position: fixed;
  background: #E3E7ED;
  z-index: 8;
  width: 150px;
  text-align: center;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  margin: 0;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #CDD1D8;
  color: #8585A2;
  padding: 0.5rem 0.25rem;
  font-size: 1rem;
}

.slide {
  width: 100px;
  height: 60px;
  background: linear-gradient(#444, #111);
  position: relative;
  user-select: none;
  border: 1px solid white;
  margin: 0 0 0.75rem 0;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(black, 0.5);
  text-align: center;
  color: white;
  line-height: 60px;
  font-size: 0.5rem;
  z-index: 5;
  &:before {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 100%;
    counter-increment: slides;
    content: counter(slides);
    padding-right: 0.35rem;
    color: #999;
    line-height: normal;
    font-size: 1rem;
  }
}

.ui-sortable-helper {
  transition: none !important;
  animation: pulse 0.4s alternate infinite;
}

.sortable-placeholder {
  height: 60px;
  width: 5px;
  border-left: 2px solid #4999DA; 
  margin: 0 0 0.75rem 0;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 6;
}

@keyframes pulse {
  100% { transform: scale(1.1); } 
}

.cloned-slides {
  .slide {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1;
    &:before {
      content: attr(data-pos);
    }
  }
}
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// Some of this code is me
// Some of this code is this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/dNfsJ/ thx to AJ for finding it for me.

$(".slide").each(function (i) {
    var item = $(this);
    var item_clone = item.clone();
    item.data("clone", item_clone);
    var position = item.position();
    item_clone
        .css({
            left: position.left,
            top: position.top,
            visibility: "hidden"
        })
        .attr("data-pos", i + 1);

    $("#cloned-slides").append(item_clone);
});

$(".all-slides").sortable({
    axis: "y",
    revert: true,
    scroll: false,
    placeholder: "sortable-placeholder",
    cursor: "move",

    start: function (e, ui) {
        ui.helper.addClass("exclude-me");
        $(".all-slides .slide:not(.exclude-me)").css("visibility", "hidden");
        ui.helper.data("clone").hide();
        $(".cloned-slides .slide").css("visibility", "visible");
    },

    stop: function (e, ui) {
        $(".all-slides .slide.exclude-me").each(function () {
            var item = $(this);
            var clone = item.data("clone");
            var position = item.position();

            clone.css("left", position.left);
            clone.css("top", position.top);
            clone.show();

            item.removeClass("exclude-me");
        });

        $(".all-slides .slide").each(function () {
            var item = $(this);
            var clone = item.data("clone");

            clone.attr("data-pos", item.index());
        });

        $(".all-slides .slide").css("visibility", "visible");
        $(".cloned-slides .slide").css("visibility", "hidden");
    },

    change: function (e, ui) {
        $(".all-slides .slide:not(.exclude-me)").each(function () {
            var item = $(this);
            var clone = item.data("clone");
            clone.stop(true, false);
            var position = item.position();
            clone.animate(
                {
                    left: position.left,
                    top: position.top
                },
                200
            );
        });
    }
});

External CSS

  1. https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css

External JavaScript

  1. https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js
  2. https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.2/jquery-ui.min.js