What's the most efficient way get the first day of the current month?

Question

With ruby I\'m trying to get format a date as such: 2009-10-01

Where I take the current date (2009-10-26) and then change the day to \"01\".

I know of ways to do

Answer 1

This works...

Not terribly clever :/

require 'date'
Date.parse(Date.parse("2009-10-26").to_s[0,8] << "01")