How to remove duplicate words in a string in ruby?

Question

ruby

A certain line comes to me, I need to remove duplicate words if they are nearby, and the registers may differ, you always need to delete the second word.
example:

Hello Hello my name Name Is is John john yes Yes John

should work
Hello my name Is John yes John
. How can I implement this with Ruby?

Answer 1

str.gsub(/\b(\w+) \1/i, '\1')