What are the Ruby equivalent of Python itertools, esp. combinations/permutations/groupby?

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Python's itertools module provides a lots of goodies with respect to processing an iterable/iterator by use of generators. For example,

permutations(range(3)) --> 012 021 102 120 201 210

combinations('ABCD', 2) --> AB AC AD BC BD CD

[list(g) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D

What are the equivalent in Ruby?

By equivalent, I mean fast and memory efficient (Python's itertools module is written in C).

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