How to show current year in view?

I'd rather use Date class to get year than Time class (if you only need the Date, you don't need to consider hours, minutes and seconds).

<%= Date.today.year %>

c.f. http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html#method-c-today

I think the best way to get the current year considering application timezone is:

Date.current.year

<%= Time.current.year %>

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/datesandtimes.html